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On the first anniversary of German
unification, Peter Schneider, one of
Germany s sharpest writers and most
original thinkers, takes us on an in-
sider s tour of the Germanys that were
and the Germany that will be.
In a shrewd, lucid narrative full of
telling vignettes, Schneider captures
the paradoxes and absurdities of life in
the absence of the legendary Wall. He
introduces us to the West German
family man who counted on the Wall
to keep his East Berlin mistress a se-
cret and the East German baker dis-
mayed at the loss of work breaks now
that flour is in steady supply. Here are
Bavarian yodelers once again in de-
mand, Stalinist functionaries who were
just "following orders," Western cap-
italists newly fond of the word "revo-
lution"--the German comedy in all
its hallucinatory variety, a Cold War
charivari with the most serious impli-
cations. Through these incisive anec-
dotes, Schneider addresses what is
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The German Comedy: Scenes of Life After the Wall 在线电子书 pdf 下载 txt下载 epub 下载 mobi 下载 2024